I am working on a mod that add's some armor stands and some special functionality with them. I know there are other mods that add armor stands and have figured out how to render the armor on top of the stands, and I have asked some of them if they would share their method for rendering the armor but I haven't gotten a response yet.

 

So my question is this: Can someone point me to an example that I could look at the code for, explain how to if you know?

 

How I am currently trying to get this to work:

I have a blockcontainer with a TE that has its own renderer. The stand renders properly.

To render the armor I am working on creating a "Ghost player" that is invisible but would "wear" the armor and be in the same position as the stand, so the armor gets rendered in that position.

 

^this doesn't seem like an even moderately decent way of implementing it but I haven't found any useful information yet and this is my solution until I do.

 

mod description for those curious:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/requests-ideas-for-mods/2498910-armerger

If you already have a decompiled version of forge 1.8 set up then you should take a look at client/renderer/entity/ArmorStandRenderer.class

It shouldn't have changed that much since 1.7

 

Otherwise there are some things in 1.7 client/renderer/entity/RenderPlayer.class you might take a look at.

 

Good luck!

I haven't looked at 1.8 yet, are the render classes more or less handled the same? Do I set up the environment the same way as 7 just with the new forge version?

 

And I'll take a look at that and see if I can make sense of it.

 

Still questioning the GhostPlayer setup, if someone has a better one they can suggest I welcome it.

 

Also edited in a link to the mod description if anyone is curious what extra functionality means.